Research Projects
Clinical practise around the management of nutrition for extremely preterm infants may vary across NICUs. This may include the use of probiotic...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Extracellular vesicles are nanoparticles that contain bioactive cargo and provide crucial information about the donor cell's identity and...
Supervisor: Dr Shanti Gurung
This research programme aims to improve acceptability and effectiveness of self-monitoring of fetal movements by pregnant women to reduce adverse...
Supervisor: Dr Billie F Bradford
Monochorionic twin pregnancies are at significantly higher risks of pregnancy complications when compared to dichorionic twin pregnancies or...
Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Lorber Rolnik
Society urgently needs new therapeutic strategies to tackle multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections. Current serious bacterial pathogens...
Supervisor: Dr Julien Tailhades
People affected by chronic conditions (for example, cancer, musculoskeletal conditions) experience high levels of personal financial burden, for...
Supervisor: Dr Danielle Berkovic
The cEEG and Stem Cell Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience are investigating new treatments for a class of patients that do not respond to...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
The human brain is distinct from those of other species in terms of size, organisation, and connectivity, which are important properties that are...
Supervisor: Dr James Pang
Floods can have direct and indirect health risks. However the health impacts of floods have not been totally understood. This project aims to assess...
Supervisor: Professor Yuming Guo
This project aims to investigate how dietary patterns influence gut physiology and, in turn, shape cardiovascular health. Emerging evidence suggests...
Supervisor: Dr Aimee Dordevic
This project aims to explore disordered eating and body image disturbance, with the goal of exploring underlying trigger stimuli. The basic premise...
Supervisor: Dr Nicole Thomas
This project aims to explore disordered eating and body image disturbance, with the goal of exploring underlying trigger stimuli. The basic premise...
Supervisor: Dr Nicole Thomas
Postmortem cardiac MRI is an exciting new application of medical imaging in the deceased. T2 mapping is a clinical technique used to quantify...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Jennifer Schumann
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). are an urgent call for action adopted by all United Nations’ member nations in 2015 to achieve peace and...
Supervisor: Professor Claire Palermo
This research program aims to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and fidelity of a co-designed FRAIL-Scale to inform preventive strategies for...
Supervisor: Dr Ching Shan (Angela) Wan
The Hippo/YAP signalling pathway is frequently dysregulated (~80%) in breast cancer. Yet, efforts aimed at targeting this pathway for therapeutic...
Supervisor: Dr Lan Nguyen
This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary research team that is changing the face of autoimmune disease management, making ground-...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah Jones
The healthy ageing process is associated with widespread changes in the integrity of the brain. These changes include alterations in the structural,...
Supervisor: Dr Sharna Jamadar
Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common cancer globally. It has defined premalignant stages and progresses through Intestinal Metaplasia (IM)...
Supervisor: Professor Alex Boussioutas
Diversity is one of the most highly evaluated value in our workplace to maximize its performance. Diversity in neural cells (neurons) may be...
Supervisor: Dr Tatsuo Sato